Hello Grant, thanks for the reply. I get no errors, and there doesn't seem to be any issues with the bios. Oddly enough I don't think the puredyne usb is being recognised at all by fdisk and lsusb. Any other ideas what might be the issue?
Thanks again, Dave On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:48 PM, grant centauri <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I've had a problem with my ASUS desktop where I have to reorder my > hard disks in the bios each time I plug in a USB to boot from. If I leave > it plugged in it stays the way I had it set. However, I don't know that > this would be your problem. Since it is booting into your linux mint > without showing any errors (i assume) that sounds to me like its not even > trying to boot from the USB, or that for whatever reason the USB has nothing > on it. Have you checked that? Do you happen to have a 'live-rw' partition > on your hard drive? > > I would > 1. mount the USB and check the contents of the drive. if for some reason > it is blank, obviously a problem. Then download and reformat. > 2. play with bios again and see if something works. > > if you get any error messages, that could be helpful in solving the > problem. i hope something will work out! > > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:11 PM, henderson five > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello list! >> >> I've been interested in puredyne for quite a while now, and I decided to >> order the puredyne live usb on the site in support of the project. I got the >> usb today, and having tried it out it (on Samsung Q430) doesn't seem to boot >> into the puredyne os, just into my regular linux mint setup. I had already >> reordered the boot priority list in the bios, and using a fedora live usb I >> made myself works just fine. Is there something obvious I'm unaware of, or >> should I just download puredyne and reformat the live usb again, assuming >> it's an issue with the liveusb itself? >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> --- >> [email protected] >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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